Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working hand-in-glove, the two old demagogues had used the legislative weapons given them by seniority to crowd into the whole field of foreign and domestic policy. Other members were threatened and badgered if they failed to go along with the McKellar-McCarran axis. Administration officials were called away from their jobs and up to Capitol Hill to be bullied and harassed. Under McCarran's chairmanship, the EGA watchdog committee (which wanted $344,000 expense money next year) had become a dirt-digging machine to supply Kenneth McKellar's rancorous attacks...
...whole nation wasn't sick by any means, but there were a few sore spots that needed treatment. In Government lingo, these are known as Grade E areas, with a "very substantial labor supply," which is another way of saying that more than 12% of the workers are out of jobs...
This week the animated dredge is digging harder than at any time since 1927, when soundtracks shattered the silent movies and Hollywood had to line up a whole new team of movie stars overnight. Every day the maw takes a bite or two of common clay, lugs it off to Hollywood's casting mills. There it is sifted for the sapphires that men sometimes find in common clay...
...story of Tennyson's vast Victorian lifetime is like the story of a civilization in Toynbee: the whole age is embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...
...England last June as Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, a title that the U.S. publishers discarded as overlong and over-likely to suggest a book for juveniles. U.S. readers may nevertheless bear it in mind, for the book can be taken as an engraved invitation to a whole class of career intellectuals to break out of their nurseries. It is a civilized and at times a sardonically funny satirical novel...